SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — BCS executive director Bill Hancock met with us at Monday’s Football Writers Association of America breakfast and said the current system works and there’s no groundswell for any sort of playoff.

He said under the old bowl system, Nos. 1 and 2 met less than 25 percent of the time. Under the current BCS system, they’ve met all 13 times. Only one problem: On Tuesday morning, we’ll have a Texas Christian team that’s undefeated and just defeated a great Wisconsin team on a neutral field.

Who’s to say it couldn’t do the same against Auburn and Oregon? To be honest, TCU matches up better against Oregon than Auburn does. In fact, since the BCS began in 1998 season, nine teams have gone home undefeated with no shot at a championship game.

Granted, three have been TCU and Utah from the Mountain West and Boise State from the WAC, but who’s to say they weren’t the best in the country after what TCU did to Wisconsin and Boise State did to Oklahoma in 2006?

I asked Burke Magnus, ESPN’s senior vice-president in charge of college sports programming, what kind of a rating a Plus-One would get. A Plus-One would use the current bowl setup except No. 4 would play No. 1 and No. 3 would play No. 2 with the winners playing the following week.

“There’s no way to project,” he said. “It’s a big game so it would be a big number.”

It would be a huge number but Magnus said ESPN has not and will not try to convince the bowls and college presidents to have any form of playoff.

“That’s not our role,” he said.

He did, however, say when ESPN’s contract expires in 2014 he expects a Plus-One to be discussed. It’ll be too late for TCU but not too late for college football.